Brackendale: Climate Change Theatre Action 2017 . . .

November 12th, 2017 @ Red Gate Reveu StageProduced by: The Only Animal and Pi TheatreDirected by: Linda PittPerformed by: Kayleigh Sandomirsky & June FukumuraPart of theClimate Change Theatre Action with The Arctic Cycle.​An afternoon of artistic response to climate change by some of Vancouver's finest artists. Works are intended to bring awareness to, and foster discussion around, climate change. The main goal of the international project is to invite as many people as possible to participate in a global conversation about climate change. Vancouver’s Climate Change Theatre Action represents one response by local theatre artists – writers, actors, directors - to the international call to respond to a global issue.

PLUNGE (An evening of Emerging Artists' Works in Progress)

An evening of opportunity for emerging artists to showcase their developing work. PLUNGE allowed for 3 works in progress (projects that are in their infancy, that have been put on the back-burner or are stuck) to engage the audience in conversations centring around the artistic questions driving their projects...

This trip-anual event series that is be offered by Resounding Scream Theatre in an attempt to build community among emerging artists in Vancouver and an attempt to encourage others to speak honestly and thoughtfully about art. Contact us for details if you are interested in participating.

Marrow

Two estranged sisters—a witchcraft historian and a bulimia survivor—delve into their conflicted past. Fiercely divided, they attempt to reconcile their differences. But a secret connects them in a way they never imagined.

Epical Musicals: A Christmas Party

December 5th, 2015 @ The Ukrainian Hall (Vancouver)Produced By: Resounding Scream Theatre - In partnership with the Troika Collective​Epical Musicals is Resounding Scream’s 2015 Christmas Party. An Epical Musical is an epic, guilty-pleasure musical that covers the arc of the story in an adaptation of 5 minutes or less. Everyone has that one guilty-pleasure musical that they’re a little embarrassed to admit is their favourite. For Co-AD Linda, it’s Show Boat and for Co-AD Stephanie it’s My Fair Lady. This is a little chance to indulge in your dirty little secret, get silly, get ridiculous and get epical!

Back Away Slowly - Grey Space . . .

Resounding Scream Theatre, supported and produced by Theatre Replacement, has been invited to participate in an event showcasing emerging art form Simon Fraser University Alumni titled Back Away Slowly. The show explored curiosity and everything that entails. Specifically, RST investigated their personal curiosities with the brain: how it functions and the personal struggles weighing them down. Six companies took over the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts in Burnaby June 19th and 20th infusing it with their artistic visions, missions and dreams.

Listen To Me

December 2nd-6th, 2014 @ Agro Cafe, Granville Island*Available to TourProduced By: Resounding Scream TheatreCreated By: Stephanie Henderson & EnsembleDirected By: Stephanie HendersonHow many times have you looked at your phone today? Checked a text or sent one? Updated your status on Facebook? Read the latest listogram on Buzzfeed? At the bus stop, waiting in line at Starbucks, even while walking to work or out with friends. How many missed connections, opportunities and relationships does this create? This was the impetus behind playwright Stephanie Henderson’s new play, Listen to Me. "I spent many years as a single woman trying to navigate the dating scene in Vancouver. I think dating has been made even more difficult since the age of dinner dates and drive in movies morphed into sexting and booty-calls. I have tinder swiped, I have blind dated, I have Events & Adventured and e-harmonied. I mean, theoretically, bigger pond equals more fish, right? Unfortunately, it just meant a lot of frog kissing and photos of erect penises and none of them led me to my prince. I wanted to address how unnatural and inauthentic it is to build relationships in this way and take us back to sharing air space instead of screen time” says Henderson. Listen to Me is an opportunity to stop hiding behind the digital personas and allow for possibility.

Parental Discretion is Advised @ AFI's REDACTED

Art for Impact celebrates arts capacity for social change. Their organization focuses on building communities, making connections, raising awareness through dialogue, motivating positive action and change, and encouraging personal growth. This time around, they are doing so by supporting the organization Evidence for Democracy. AFI has challenged their artists to create pieces centred around a theme of censorship.

In their piece Parental Discretion is Advised, Resounding Scream Theatre explores the ways in which we exercise personal forms of censorship - ways that may be positive or negative. They invite you to uncover the truth beneath the masks that we wear to protect ourselves or others.

Hive: the New Bees 3

In the spirit of collaboration, Resounding Scream Theatre took on the production of the newest incarnation of the theatrical event inspired by the original Hive Collective. Resounding Scream will be presented Hive: The New Bees 3 summer of 2013. Last year, 12 companies came together to create an event full of creativity and passion. This year, 11 companies will again take the plunge sharing emerging art and innovation with East Vancouver.

Buzz Kill: Christmas with the New Bees

December 14th, 2012 @ Progress Lab 1422By: Resounding Scream Theatre

Collaboration, innovation and cross-polination is not always an easy task. However, the success of Hive: The New Bees 2 showed us that it is possible. We are working hard to keep this spirit alive and are doing so by continuing with the Hive: The New Bees legacy producing a new incarnation for Spring of 2013. To help fund this event, we hosted Buzz Kill: Christmas with the New Bees, a Christmas Party Fundraiser.

Acts Included: Theatre Under the Gun Style performances, comedy and music with a festive holiday spin.

Initiation Trilogy

In the tradition of such celebrated Canadian installation artists as Janet Cardiff and George Mueller, the viewer is given an intensely active role in the creation of the experience. Electric Company is inspired to combine this aesthetic quality with theatre’s capacity to tell a strong story within a communal or group experience wherein we break down the isolating components in our culture and encourage contact, collaboration and community.

Resounding Scream Theatre worked with Electric Company to help facilitate the audience experience acting as shepherds guiding them through the journey of Director Anita Rocon's artistic vision.

The Troubles (Re-Write/Re-Mount)

"What would they call you? Not your name, love…your side?"A story based on personal accounts of individuals living through conflict in Northern Ireland, The Troubles is a thought-provoking one woman show that draws upon the voices of five distinct characters to explore questions around community, morality, and loyalty. A boundary-pushing story of love and violence, The Troublesspeaks that which has been forgotten.

Christmas Eve In Saigon

Christmas Eve in Saigon is the latest script in the works for Resounding Scream Theatre. Catherine Ballachey is in the development/creation stages of this script that was performed in a staged reading at the Neanderthal Festival this year. Stay tuned for information on upcoming workshops. To inquire about this project, feel free to contact Catherine directly. Click Contact Us for further information.

Art For Impact: Eye to I

An inspiring evening of dance, theatre, and music works exploring the theme of "eye to i"- acknowledging that placing yourself in another's circumstance cultivates a deeper understanding and appreciation of not only others, but of yourself.

All proceeds from the event are going to LEAP (Learning for the Empowerment and Advancement of Palestinians), an organization dedicated to (1) providing those from other countries opportunities to personally witness the plight of Palestinians, and (2) empowering Palestinian refugee youth through education.

Resounding Scream's creative contribution, I Am..., explores the experience of tracking "Eye" to "I"; how you see yourself and others in the physically and how that is reflected back influencing how we put ourselves out into the world. It literally fleshes out the experiences of Catherine Ballachey by tracking them like a map on the body: scars, marks and memories.

Hive: The New Bees 2

The "Hive" structure was birthed by a number of professional companies in Vancouver (formerly The Hive Collective, now known as The Progress Lab). The idea is that a number of participating companies will all perform simultaneously in the same venue providing the opportunity for audience members to see multiple performances under one roof. The goal for Hive: The New Bees 2 is to provide the opportunity for recently graduated artists from Simon Fraser University and other Post-Secondary institutions to share their work with audiences in the city that fostered their learning and fuels their fires.

Kitchen Sink

For one night and one night only, Vancouver performers live out your wildest theatrical dreams or your most guilty performance pleasure. Kitchen Sink (as in, everything but the) is a smorgasbord of theatre, film, comedy, music, and even a dance party all dedicated to the campy secret desires of the "artiste."

Producer: Catherine BallacheyProduction Assistant: Aliya Griffin

Art for Impact Presents: 12 Ways to Make Light In The Dark

December 3rd, 2011: @ The Vinegar Factory, VancouverProduced By: Art for ImpactThis instalment of Art for Impact will be donating proceeds to Caleb's Hope. Please click Caleb's Hope for their website. The Resounding Scream Theatre piece, in collaboration with artist Aliya Griffin, is an interactive instillation titled Set a Candle in the Window. The piece, including audio recording and live perogiee creation, explored how individuals have made light in the dark in their own past.

The Troubles

"What would they call you? Not your name, love…your side?"A story based on personal accounts of individuals living through conflict in Northern Ireland, The Troubles is a thought-provoking one woman show that draws upon the voices of five distinct characters to explore questions around community, morality, and loyalty. A boundary-pushing story of love and violence, The Troublesspeaks that which has been forgotten.

Brink: A Farce Tragedy

In Brink: A Farce Tragedy, we find ourselves in a brief moment between war epics: the end of the Trojan War and the beginning of the Greeks’ journey home. A contemporary adaptation of a Greek classic, the action takes place in a ruined army barrack and follows Hecuba, the Queen of Troy, as she prepares to be handed over to the Greeks as a slave. Torn between resistance and the inevitable, she evaluates her position as new leader of the ruined city and faces the absurdity of her situation. Many of the city’s leftover women come to her for help and inspiration, but they slowly realize the reality of their fate.

Let Me Tell You

The oppression and objectification of women has not always been inflicted by their male counterparts. Though this treatment has, in the past, been deeply seeded by men, the women are just as guilty. Join two Secretarial Managers at a prestigious law firm as the educate their newest secretary on how to properly conduct herself at “Goldman, Saksman and Weiss”.

Meet The Chapeltons

A short piece created especially for the Resounding Scream Theatre/rice & beans theatre Fundraiser, this 10 minute sketch highlights what happens when the popular computer game Sims comes to life. The audience gets the opportunity to meet Mark, Maria and Mandy Chapelton, a dysfunctional family hiding behind lies, secrets and denial. This is, afterall, still a game and in order for a game to be interactive, it must be played. Manuela takes control inviting the audience to participate in the life of this family , a world that can change with every single decision made.

Trojan Women . . .

The historic Trojan War is remembered for many things: the Trojan Horse, the deaths of Hector and Achilles…but what about the women? Euripides sought to uncover this mystery in his mythological classic, Trojan Women. Many of the issues that Euripides raised in this tragedy – abandonment, enigma, hierarchy and hopelessness – are reflected in the world that we live in today. Through Resounding Scream Theatre’s contemporary adaptation, trojan women… enters a world already shattered, already wounded, already dead. Through the merging of modern and traditional theme’s and language, Resounding Scream Theatre hopes to make the men and women of this Greek tragedy, men and women who once seemed so far removed from our reality, become relatable by sourcing events from the world around us. Come join us for a walk through the past to a war that never ended…